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Hilda MacClure
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1931 - 25th June (1931) to Mrs. Robt. McClure,
Islandreagh, Dunadry, Co. Antrim - M. Crymble Ltd., Piano, Organ and Music
Warehouse, 14 College Square East & 40 Wellington Place, Belfast 24th June
1931 - Dear Mrs. McClure, In reference to your visit last Monday. I spoke to
Miss Bowen Evans, who was in to-day, and showed her the Pianos which I
showed you. She agrees that the Steck is well worth the additional money on
the cheaper Instruments. The tome is fuller and of better quality. I enclose
illustrations of the 3 new Pianos which I showed you. I have not got an
illustration of the Second-hand Piano by Lange in Walnut Case. The Price of
it, you will remember, was £30 (Thirty Pounds) Net. Miss Bowen Evans also
tried the Second-hand Piano, and was much impressed, particularly as she was
very fond of her old Lange, which she had for a great number of years. I
shall be very pleased to hear from you, and can promise you my personal
attention. I am, Yours very truly, Hy. Crymble
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1) 1937 - 26th November 1937 The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music, London Hilda J. H. MacClure Entered by Miss Bowen Evans Overall
Score 105/150
1) 1938 - 9th July 1938 The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music, London Hilda J. H. MacClure Entered by Miss I. M. Brooks
Overall Score 93/150
 
 
  
 
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1) 1939 - 16th September 1939 Malvern Girls' College, Worcestershire -
Hinton House, Hinton St. George, Somerset - Your daughter or ward must
remember to bring :- a) her gas mask CLICK 1 to read - Iris Brooks
2) 1939 - 29th September 1939 Postmark Hinton St. George to Mrs. R. MacClure,
Islandreagh House, Dunadry, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland - 28th September 1939
Dear Parent or Guardian, We are so very sorry, but we find that we shall
have to put off the return of the girls to Hinton House/Brymore until
October 11th. CLICK 2 to read
3) 1939 - 3rd October 1939 Hinton House, Hinton St. George, Somerset -
CLICK 3 to read
4) Hilda MacClure Choir Notes November 1939 - Hilda MacClure Lindfield
  
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1) 1943 - 26th March 1943 The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music, London McClure, Hilda J. H. Entered by Miss Shepperd Overall
Score 130/150 Tidmarsh Examiner
2) 1943 - 12th April 1943 Postmark Belfast to Miss Hilda McClure,
Islandreagh House, Dunadry - Good news! - The Associated Board of the Royal
Schools of Music, London April 1943 Written Examinations The following
is the result of your recent Examination in Grammar of Music, Grade IV
Maximum marks 99, Number required to pass 66, Marks obtained 99. You are
entitles, therefore, to a Pass Certificate in accordance with the
Regulations contained in the Syllabus. L. H. Macklin, Secretary. Hilda
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1944 - 15th June 1944 Postmark London to Miss Hilda MacClure, Islandreagh
House, Dunadry, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland from J. B. Cramer & Co. Ltd., 139 New
Bond Street, London, W.1. - Dear Madam, We thank you for your letter
of the 10th instant, but we regret it is quite impossible to obtain
BEETHOVEN's "Sonatas" Volume 3 in the Associated Board Edition. It is still
reprinting and the publishers say they are unable to give any date as to
when they will have further supplies. We have now in stock an Augener
Edition of Mozart's "Sonatas" price 10s.0d. postage 1s.0d. extra. This is
all that is obtainable and it is the only edition which has been reprinted
of this work. We shall be pleased to forward a copy on hearing from you and
receipt of your cheque for 11s0d. for same. With Compliments, Yours
faithfully, R. Green? Music Department
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1) 1944 - 8th December 1944 The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music, London McClure, Hilda J. H. Entered by Miss M. Sheppard Overall Score
127/150 Trew Examiner
2) 1944 - 26th December 1944 Postmark Belfast to Miss H. McClure,
Islandreagh House, Dunadry, Co. Antrim
 
 
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1) 1945 - 19th July 1945 Postmark Belfast to Miss Hilda McClure, Islandreagh
House, Dunadry, Co. Antrim - John Patterson, Tenor, 9 Kinnaird Terrace,
Antrim Road, Belfast 17th July 1945 Dear Miss McClure, Thanks
for cheque - receipt enclosed. - you need not have troubled until you are
back. Would you like to come the last Thursday in August at your usual time?
I will expect you then unless I hear from you. We are starting a week
earlier than usual as we will have to have a week off in September. Hope you
have a nice holiday with better weather than the present variety. Yours
sincerely J. Patterson
2) 1945 - 14th December 1945 Postmark Belfast to Miss McClure, Islandreagh,
Dunadry, Co. Antrim - 6th December 1945 The Associated Board of the Royal
Schools of Music, London McClure, Hilda Entered by Miss Sheppard Overall
Score 120/150 Herbert? Wickens? Examiner
 
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1) 1946 - 14th ? 1946 The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music, London McClure, Hilda J. H., Entered by Mr. Patterson, Singing
Grade VI List Mazzo Sop. Overall Score 101/150 Hector McCurragh? Examiner
2) 1946 - 16th September 1946 The Royal Hippodrome, Belfast. The
Dublin Grand Opera Society
 
1947 - 10th April 1947 Postmark London to Messrs. J. Patterson & Donald
Cairns, 9 Kinnaird Terrace, Thorndale Avenue, Antrim Road, Belfast - The
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London Hilda McClure,
Entered by Messrs. Patterson & Cairns. List Contralto Overall Score 120/150
Ernie? Grant Examiner March 21st, 1947
1947 - 28th April - 3rd May 1947 Bangor Musical Festival First Year
 
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1) 1948 - 3rd June 1948 The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
MacClure, Hilda Entered by Mr. Patterson Overall Score 115/150
2) 1948 - 7th September 1948 Postmark Belfast to Miss Hilda MacClure,
Islandreagh Dyeing & Finishing Co., Dunadry, Co. Antrim. Kindly deliver. -
Tuesday. 9 Kinnaird Terrace, Thorndale Avenue, Belfast. May I borrow your
copy of "Morning Hymn" of Henschel? I need a second copy for a broadcast
next week - perhaps you would bring it with you on Thursday. All good
wishes, Donald Cairns
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1) 1950 - 15th August 1950 Postmark London to Miss H. J. H. MacLure,
L.R.A.M., Islandreagh House, Dunabry (Dunadry), Co. Antrim, N. Ireland
2) 1950 - 21st December 1950 John Patterson, Tenor, 9 Kinnaird terrace,
Antrim Road, Belfast - This is to Certify that Miss Hilda McClure has
studied singing with me for a period of seven years, during which time she
has diligently applied herself to the study of the subject in all its
respects. She recently gained the Diploma of Licentiate of the Royal Academy
of Music, London - Teacher's Diploma - and I regard her as in every way
qualified to undertake a position of Music Instructress in any school. John
Patterson
1951 - 17th July 1951 Postmark Belfast to Miss McClure, Islandreagh House,
Dunadry, Co. Antrim no dates
 
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1) Ballymena Musical Festival, Pianoforte Marking Sheet
2) Mrs. McClure, Islandreagh House, Dunadry
3) The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, London Hilda J.
H. Maclure Entered by Miss I. M. Brooks Overall Score 117/150
4) 9 Ulsterville Avenue, Belfast My dear Hilda, I hope you will
be pleased with these results. I congratulate you most heartily. You are a
girl after my own heart!! You have created a record as far as I am concerned
in your theory, I never heard of any one getting full marks, you must have
been most tidy and neat as well as accurate. I hope to see you on Thursday
week, meantime you can gloat over these results. With love ? Shepperd
5) Bangor Musical Festival, Pianoforte Marking Sheets. Hilda Maclure
6) 18 Rosepark East, Dundonald, Belfast. Miss Hilda MacClure,
L.R.A.M., has been a pupil of mine for several years, and has studied the
Pianoforte Harmony Rudiments of Music, Form, and methods of Teaching with
me. Miss MacClure has always been very conscientious in her studies, has a
wide appreciation of music in general, and I have every confidence in
recommending her as a teacher. Mary Dann, L.R.A.M., L.T.C.L.
7) Londonderry Feis, Pianoforte Marking Sheet Hilda MacClure
    
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1) Boo-Hoo. Oh! you meanie minie mo, When you let me go, You left me
in the middle of next week, When you said you'd let me go, Did I holler
"No"! Now the tears are rolling down my cheek. Chorus Boo Hoo
you've got me crying for you, and as I sit here and sigh, Says I, I can't
believe it's true, Boo Hoo I'll tell mama on you. The little game that you
played, Has made her baby Oh so blue, You left me in the lurch, you left me
waiting at the church. Boo Hoo that's why I'm crying for you, Some day
you'll feel like I do, And you'll be Boo-Hoo Hoo'in too. Once my
heart. Once my heart was light and gay, Now it's sad and blue, And there's
nothing left for me to do, I was happy yesterday, Now I'm so forlorn, When I
turned around, I found you gone.
2) Hilda MacClure Upper B 6 Elocution
3) Sammy's Bath, 2nd Song for Audience. The kettles are singing like
mid-summer larks, The fire is flinging a shower of sparks. The children run
flying to fetch what they're biden, For washing and drying the sweep boy
they've hidden. They hurry upstairs to the nursery hearth, Where Rowan
prepares to give Sammy his bath; With brushes to scrub him. with basins to
flood him, With flannels to rub him, with soap balls to sud him!
Splash in he plunges and Rowan lets fly, With sopping wet sponges and sparks
in her eye! She washes and rinses and scrubs willy nilly, Till poor Sammy
winces but shines like a Lily. And now Sam is gleaming like snow in
the sun, While Rowan stands beaming to see her work done. So all who were
frightened when Sam was benighted, Please see how he's whitened. and show
you're delighted!
4) Grand Opera House, Belfast, Week commencing 18th June, International
Ballet, The Carl Rosa Opera, The Flying Dutchman.
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1) Alliteration. In yesterday's "News-Letter" a correspondent referred to
the classic example of "Alliteration's Artful Aid" which begins "An Austrian
army awfully arrayed." She quoted the first eight lines and asked whether
there were any more. There is. These clever, if not very lucid, lines are
more than a century old. Some authorities say that they were written by
Alaric A. Watts (1797 - 1864); others that they were composed by boys at
Westminster School. Here is the complete thing:-
An Austrian army, awfully arrayed,
Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade.
Cossack commanders cannonading came,
Dealing destruction's devastating doom;
Every endeavour engineers essay,
For fame, for fortune, fighting - furious fray!
Generals 'gainst generals grapple, gracious God!
How honours heaven heroic hardihood!
Infuriate - indiscriminate in ill -
Kinsmen kill kindred - kindred kinsmen kill;
Labour low levels loftiest, longest lines,
Men, march 'mid mounds, 'mid moles, 'mid murderous mines;
Now noisy noxious numbers notice nought
Of outward obstacles, opposing ought -
Poor patriots! - partly purchased - partly press'd,
Quite quaking, quickly, "Quarter! quarter" quest;
Reason returns, religious right redounds,
Suwarrow stops such sanguinary sounds,
Truce to thee, Turkey, triumph to thy train,
Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine!
Vanish, vain victory; vanish victory vain!
Why wish we warfare? Wherefore welcome were
Xerxes, Ximenes, Xanthus, Xaviere.
Yield, yield, ye youths, ye yeomen, yield your yell'
Zeno's, Zampatee's, Zoroaster's zeal,
Attracting all, arms against acts appeal! The Roamer
2) The Spectator, September 6, 1946 - The Promised land, Harold L. Lee, 113
Makepeace Mansions, N.6; The Perils of Peace, W. Selby, Forest Garden,
Burley, Hants; The Gold Question, J. H. Higginson, Craiglands, Cavendish
Road, Sutton, Surrey; Building Costs, G. H. Keighley-Bell; Requisitioned
Land, Alban F. E. Bacon, The Malt House, Burghclere, Newbury; The British
Point of View, G. H.; Paper Control, Stanley Unwin, Governing Director,
George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 40 Museum Street, W.C.1; Janus and Strix, S.
Wainwright, The Heath, Leeds 6; Save Europe Now, Victor Gollancz, Chairman,
"Save Europe Now."; An Ambiguous Advertisement, G. Reginald Lindsay, The
Vicarage, 8 Heald Street, Garston, Liverpool 19; Country Life; Rare Birds;
Family Farmers; Libelled Peacocks; In My Garden, W. Beach Thomas.
3) The washing-machine mystery.
4) Part article: WW2
5) The Sunday Express, April 24th 1949: Health Service rackets, 54 women
applied to one doctor for free corsets and most got them: Man of 94 who got
two dentures: Two free spectacles at £8 to save a 2/- repair. - No purchase
tax - Even champagne! - Doctor's fear - Sold by seamen - Squandered cash -
New order - Dentists' charges - Earnings limited.
6) back of #5 part articles: Yangtse River - Royal Navy Mass Grave
7) Daily Express Tuesday - How to save £250,000,000 a year
8) over side of #7 - part articles - Blind man and his dog - Dachshund's
Deformities - Philip Wade dies at 54
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1) The Argus Weekender January 23, 1954 - Wives of leading men: Mrs. R. H.
Solly by Cynthia Strachan - Is This You? £5 awaits the wearer of this outfit
- Puddicombe/Dodgson marriage - Photo: At the Delphic Club's first social
function last night were Mr. Tony Marshall, a student at the Gordon
Institute of Technology at Geelong, and brother of John Marshall, famous
Australian swimmer, who is at Yale University, and Miss Yvonne Catrina, of
Hampton - Social Club for Undergrads. - Cold Climate Preserves
2) The Argus Weekender, Saturday January 23, 1954 - Entertainment: This is
not "Our Nellie" - Records, The drab folders are gone - Show Queen our
talent by Frank Doherty
3) Belfast News-Letter, Monday, December 6, 1943 - Mainly for Women: Mayfair
Gossip - Lady Edith's Hints - Music Society, Pianoforte Recital by Noel
Newton-Wood
4) as #3 - Music in Ulster: "Hearing With Our Eyes".. Hotel Guards Nine
Zionists -
5) part articles - Flying to their husbands for Xmas: Mrs. Christine Kiernan
from Hastings, Sussex and baby Robert; Mrs. Daphne Mahathy, Newbury
Berkshire, with daughters Susan and Gillian. - Big Haul by Railway Bandits,
Berlin - Reprieve was too late: Paris, Monday. - Fined J.P. is struck off,
Served 26 years, Alderman Arthur Edwin Reeve of Stratford, Essex - Britain
Studies Corfu Reply - Dried Eggs Ordered
6) Neil Munro's Tips to Provide Life for the Party
7) Photo: A new aerial photograph of Belfast (Nutt's Corner) Airport, which
has been issued by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Statistics just made
available show that during 1948 passengers on regular services handled in
and out totalled 81,327, compared with 55,535 in 1947.
8) back of #7 - part articles: Retirement of Right Hon. Lord Justice
Babington
9) Fame of Singing Grandmother. Flagstad's Voice, Still a star at 54.
10) back of #9 - Wanted and For Sale adverts (cars mostly)
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